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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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This such a weird view. I know let's keep in place a fucking terrible manager leading us into relegation because ENIC and Levy are shit and we hate them. Makes no logical sense. People judging Ange should be judging him solely based on what has happened on the pitch, and on the pitch it is objectively absolutely awful and he is failing big time.

If you still aren't Ange out after that Everton game, and it only meant you were almost there, well that's crazy. Just how bad do you need it to get before it clicks that Ange is a useless fraud?
Let's let the manager potentially relegate us because ENIC only get us top 4...

Yeah it's a strange one.
 
How has he got 2 more games ?
how much more do the owners have to see

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The City team were all looking dead on their feet through November and December. They had a lot of players injured and the ones that were playing were a mix of over used and too old (sometimes both)

They sorted it out by buying their way out of it and having some players come back.
Their injuries weren't all hamstrings and they also don't look totally uncoached. So that's where the similarities end.
They also have a manager that’s a tiny bit better than ours
 
We cant be critical of Ange because it means Levy is absolved?

What kind of logic is that? It's possible to blame both.
This is my whole annoyance of the ange in brigade, for some reason they seem to think that if you want the aussie fraud gone it means you must be some Levy/Enic lover. No they're both cunts but the owners aren't going anywhere and no other manager that has worked under the primordial dwarf has had us playing as poorly as we are
 
Why is it baffling? We’ve been rolling like this for years. They’ll wait it out right to the end of the window to bring in some jokers on loan. Then our resident cheerleaders will get to work hyping these guys as great work and obvious improvements.

What’s baffling is that anybody expects any different. It’s like you haven’t actually been following this club in recent years.

That's not at all how Levy has operated. His baseline since Jol has always been Europe and if a manager has looked like failing at that he has either sacked them or provided just enough transfer assistance to achieve his goal. Or both.

You are confusing Levy's goals (Europe) with our goals (success/trophies).

That's why all Conte got in the January before he was sacked was Porro on the last day whereas the season before they got Bentancur and Kulusevski because that's what was needed to get Europe (in the end it got CL so Levy was happy as a pig in shit)

Whatever peoples opinions on Postecoglou it was already out of character for Levy not to have pulled the plug before January given our league form; what is genuinely baffling is that he's doesn't appear to be urgently looking to shore up/insulate the Club from a possible relegation battle given the injury the Solanke (let alone the 10 other injuries they knew about before January).

SO yeah - Levy has gone from out of character (not sacking Ange in November/December) to outright baffling (risking relegation let alone the last chance of Europe via League Cup or EL win)
 
This is my whole annoyance of the ange in brigade, for some reason they seem to think that if you want the aussie fraud gone it means you must be some Levy/Eric lover. No they're both cunts but the owners aren't going anywhere and no other manager that has worked under the primordial dwarf has had us playing as poorly as we are
You'd think that blaming Levy would somehow make him sell the club the way they frame it.
 
Jose took it to an extreme though, we had the worst running stats in the league under him.

The simple fact is playing twice a week every week over the winter months - you absolutely do not need to be doing more running In training, that sharpness is going to remain throughout. The problem is, Ange does not train tactics, we have a first hand account of that, so if he removes the running - what are they actually going to do in training? - Werner could do with some shooting practice and Dragusin could learn to pass the ball forwards, but other than that
Yeah, Jose took it too far in the other direction. But there is a lot of sense in the whole Tactical Periodisation method that he and a lot of other managers from Portugal and Spain follow.
 
Just let Ange see the season out. Judge him on the back end of the season where hopefully the squad is fully fit and we can see what the results are like when he has VDV, Romero, Udogie and co back.

If the team is still looking lacklustre at that point, then make the change over the summer.

Personally I don't hold out much hope for him. I've really not seen much tactical nouse that gives me the impression he's anything special, but I haven't written him off yet.
 
If we have the best then why are four medical positions advertised mid season, either some have been made scapegoats , positions were never filled or they were not the best and we are now seeking the best?
Facilities mat be best but background team certainly are not. Jedenik just retired so had no experience. If Mason wanted to be a first class coach he should have left the comfort of the nest and cut his teeth in a lower league. Di we have a set piece coach, since Vio left when Conte did, looking at how we defend corners I very much doubt it.
That's a seperate issue. Clearly we have decided to change things but pretending the players were sharing one physio and the medical team under resourced is speculative junk. And Conte was allowed to bring a large team. It was Ange chose to come in with zero back room, which shows how fucking clueless the bloke is. NO serious head coach behaves this way
 
Just let Ange see the season out. Judge him on the back end of the season where hopefully the squad is fully fit and we can see what the results are like when he has VDV, Romero, Udogie and co back.

If the team is still looking lacklustre at that point, then make the change over the summer.

Personally I don't hold out much hope for him. I've really not seen much tactical nouse that gives me the impression he's anything special, but I haven't written him off yet.
And let us go down?
Literally, you would watch us slip into the bottom 3 then stay there, and keep this opinion?
 
Just let Ange see the season out. Judge him on the back end of the season where hopefully the squad is fully fit and we can see what the results are like when he has VDV, Romero, Udogie and co back.

If the team is still looking lacklustre at that point, then make the change over the summer.

Personally I don't hold out much hope for him. I've really not seen much tactical nouse that gives me the impression he's anything special, but I haven't written him off yet.
He was mostly shit last season from game 11 onwards, and almost entirely shit this one outside of a handful of games.

What more can we learn between now and May? He has us on track to 17th, and that's just because the 3 promoted teams are so weak.
 
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Just let Ange see the season out. Judge him on the back end of the season where hopefully the squad is fully fit and we can see what the results are like when he has VDV, Romero, Udogie and co back.

If the team is still looking lacklustre at that point, then make the change over the summer.

Personally I don't hold out much hope for him. I've really not seen much tactical nouse that gives me the impression he's anything special, but I haven't written him off yet.
We won just 9 league games out of 35 in all of 2024. Many of these games with close to our first choice 11. Do not be fooled.

Of course injuries have exacerbated the situation further, but this fluffer loses games with everyone fit too.
 
And let us go down?
Literally, you would watch us slip into the bottom 3 then stay there, and keep this opinion?

We could go down and some would still want him in - who would be better at getting us out of the champ? We need to back him in the summer window and buy that striker from Carlisle? He will deliver the Johnston’s screwfit milk Vase this season.

Then when we finish 12th in the champ it will be “are you not entertained”
 
We could go down and some would still want him in - who would be better at getting us out of the champ? We need to back him in the summer window and buy that striker from Carlisle? He will deliver the Johnston’s screwfit milk Vase this season.

Then when we finish 12th in the champ it will be “are you not entertained”
I can see it now. Combine that with the brutal cost cutting ENIC would implement. And let's not forget the Championship is a more competitive league than any of Scotland, Australia and Japan. Relegation really must be avoided.
 
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